Quote from: Rocket Science on 11/29/2017 01:12 amQuote from: JAFO on 11/28/2017 11:55 pmQuote from: john smith 19 on 11/28/2017 10:32 pmQuote from: yg1968 on 11/28/2017 08:49 pmI don't know if the windows are a requirement but I suppose that a periscope (or cameras) could also be used. Sirangelo said (a while ago) that making a DC wasn't that expensive. So you are right about that. But I sort of wonder if you don't make the crewed DC right away, is that capability lost after a while?Good question. Another issue is how much such a craft is actually "piloted"As much or little as they design into it. Shuttle was not capable of autoland, Buran was fully autonomous. Heavy airliners can do fully automated CAT IIIb/Land 3 (0' vertical vis, 150' horizontal) approaches, I imagine that would be easy to build into Dream Chaser.Slight correction, the Shuttle was capable but never fully utilized... Except for the gear which you had to deploy... From out friend Wayne Hale:https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/breaking-through/Fair enough. (We have to drop the gear ourselves, too.)
Quote from: JAFO on 11/28/2017 11:55 pmQuote from: john smith 19 on 11/28/2017 10:32 pmQuote from: yg1968 on 11/28/2017 08:49 pmI don't know if the windows are a requirement but I suppose that a periscope (or cameras) could also be used. Sirangelo said (a while ago) that making a DC wasn't that expensive. So you are right about that. But I sort of wonder if you don't make the crewed DC right away, is that capability lost after a while?Good question. Another issue is how much such a craft is actually "piloted"As much or little as they design into it. Shuttle was not capable of autoland, Buran was fully autonomous. Heavy airliners can do fully automated CAT IIIb/Land 3 (0' vertical vis, 150' horizontal) approaches, I imagine that would be easy to build into Dream Chaser.Slight correction, the Shuttle was capable but never fully utilized... Except for the gear which you had to deploy... From out friend Wayne Hale:https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/breaking-through/
Quote from: john smith 19 on 11/28/2017 10:32 pmQuote from: yg1968 on 11/28/2017 08:49 pmI don't know if the windows are a requirement but I suppose that a periscope (or cameras) could also be used. Sirangelo said (a while ago) that making a DC wasn't that expensive. So you are right about that. But I sort of wonder if you don't make the crewed DC right away, is that capability lost after a while?Good question. Another issue is how much such a craft is actually "piloted"As much or little as they design into it. Shuttle was not capable of autoland, Buran was fully autonomous. Heavy airliners can do fully automated CAT IIIb/Land 3 (0' vertical vis, 150' horizontal) approaches, I imagine that would be easy to build into Dream Chaser.
Quote from: yg1968 on 11/28/2017 08:49 pmI don't know if the windows are a requirement but I suppose that a periscope (or cameras) could also be used. Sirangelo said (a while ago) that making a DC wasn't that expensive. So you are right about that. But I sort of wonder if you don't make the crewed DC right away, is that capability lost after a while?Good question. Another issue is how much such a craft is actually "piloted"
I don't know if the windows are a requirement but I suppose that a periscope (or cameras) could also be used. Sirangelo said (a while ago) that making a DC wasn't that expensive. So you are right about that. But I sort of wonder if you don't make the crewed DC right away, is that capability lost after a while?
Nice to know one can be replaced by a relay and a software update...
Quote from: Rocket Science on 11/29/2017 02:09 pmNice to know one can be replaced by a relay and a software update... As with all IT systems when you have 2 units with a data link between them if you can make another unit that mimics one of them then you can replace that unit with your own.And the Shuttle flight system was always one where the Pilot asked the flight computer to make a change of course. Doing it with adequate reliability (which for civilian blind land is 1 in 1x10^9 operating hours) is the tough part.
Quote from: Rocket Science on 11/25/2017 01:39 amQuote from: JAFO on 11/25/2017 12:09 amSo no more ALT tests, or TBD?None planned, next stop space! In any other industry, they would be laughed out of the room for declaring success after just one successful test...
Quote from: JAFO on 11/25/2017 12:09 amSo no more ALT tests, or TBD?None planned, next stop space!
So no more ALT tests, or TBD?